Most Follow Fridays, I largely feature artists who recently made the front page. This week, however, I've been noticing A LOT of movies that are front page potentials, but haven't made front page because it's a pretty crowded place and I have a hard time balancing crowd-pleasers with up-and-comers.

It is ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT to follow these artists if you'd like to see more of their stuff. Most of them barely have any followers so the follows will be extremely encouraging. It will also ensure that you SEE their next upload if it doesn't make front page. To follow someone, click the heart on their user page, or next to their name in the credits below the submission. Our feed system has a big update coming next month!

Try to watch as many of these as you can, then tell me which ones you would like to see featured on the front page.

thesweepstudios made a charming Street Fight movie called "A Honorable Fight." I'm his only fan at the moment, join me!

Everything in this post (sans Nevrosia666's music and the original Merry Melony) was from the past THREE DAYS here on Newgrounds and I excluded today's daily winners. Makes you wonder what else you're missing, right? We used to have an annual treasure hunt but it fell apart in 2011 when I never finished parsing my list of 1000+ gems suggested by the community. If I ever manage to finish that, we'll need the next hunt to focus on 2011-2014.

At 3/21/14 12:33 PM, TomFulp wrote:
I actually did front page the latest episode, but it wasn't up for too long. Should it go back up?

It seems like a lot of time and effort went into this. The authors deserve to be highlighted. The genre is unusual. In the Author Comments underneath the first episode, the show is described as an animated "political sci fi comedy". That is a first of a kind for me (unless maybe you count "Rick and Morty").

At 3/21/14 03:23 PM, Remorph wrote:
We should have nobody artist, games and audio sections too perhaps.

Would be cool as part of a discovery engine to let you filter by like, people with the highest scores but least fans...

We want to do a number of things to encourage more subscribing. For example, when you click the heart on a submission, we might pop in a box that gives you the option to follow the individual contributors, or click a button to follow ALL of them in one swoop.

We could also have something on a page of a user's favorite people, where you can click a button to follow ALL of them. So if you determine that someone on NG has excellent taste and everyone they follow is probably awesome, you can just jump onboard with that.

And of course we'd like to have a recommendation system that suggests people you should be following... The plan for that is manually curated lists that group artists together in clusters (and artists can exist in multiple clusters), so if you like an artist who is dark and disturbing, for example, it would suggest other dark and disturbing artists.

At 3/21/14 03:27 PM, TomFulp wrote:
We want to do a number of things to encourage more subscribing. For example, when you click the heart on a submission, we might pop in a box that gives you the option to follow the individual contributors, or click a button to follow ALL of them in one swoop.

And of course we'd like to have a recommendation system that suggests people you should be following...

I think both of those are pretty good ideas, recommendations especially. Do you think it would be possible to search for users like "dark and disturbing artists"? Like giving users tags (or searching through their submissions for tags) and adding an option to search for users.

Still wanna see my follow increment their number of followers without having to refresh the page.

At 3/21/14 03:58 PM, MSGhero wrote:
I think both of those are pretty good ideas, recommendations especially. Do you think it would be possible to search for users like "dark and disturbing artists"? Like giving users tags (or searching through their submissions for tags) and adding an option to search for users.

Still wanna see my follow increment their number of followers without having to refresh the page.

If we got it done you would be able to access the lists. As for direct user search, lately I've been keen on having our search just load up Google results in an iframe. We'll just never be able to search the site as well as Google. The downside is the google results aren't as pretty as ours since they don't always pull in thumbnails and they mix EVERYTHING together and prioritize our tag results pages... We could beautify it if we used their API but that would get really expensive because people do tons of searches.

Agreed about the instant update - I love bells and whistles like that, just hard to prioritize them when we're always spread thin.

At 3/21/14 04:02 PM, TomFulp wrote:
If we got it done you would be able to access the lists. As for direct user search, lately I've been keen on having our search just load up Google results in an iframe. We'll just never be able to search the site as well as Google. The downside is the google results aren't as pretty as ours since they don't always pull in thumbnails and they mix EVERYTHING together and prioritize our tag results pages... We could beautify it if we used their API but that would get really expensive because people do tons of searches.

There was an internet and search engines long before Google, is it really that hard to make a good search page? How about gently ripping off IMDB's advanced search model/page? I know we don't have as many searchable tags with our ancient db... but adding 'search between (date/score/views) and (date/score/views)' fields might work...

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